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A seed is used too set a pseudo random generator to a specific state.
So if you create two Random objects with the same seed it will repeat the same random sequence.
This usefull if you need something to be repeatable, but i am guessing that is not what you want.
Try reading the javadoc for the seed constructor of Random again